The dataset used for the task was prepared by the task organizers during the months previous to the start of the competition, and is called “Freesound Dataset Kaggle 2018” (or FSDKaggle2018 for short).
FSDKaggle2018 is in fact a reduced subset of FSD, which is a large-scale, general-purpose open audio dataset that is currently under development.
More details about FSD can be found in [1]}.
The following subsections describe the creation process of FSDKaggle2018.
